It might not feel like it, but we are safer, richer and healthier than at any time on record [The Telegraph, UK, Thursday 08 January 2015] We are living longer, healthier lives than ever before Photo: Alamy By Fraser Nelson Newspapers can seem like a rude intrusion into the Christmas…
Though fixated on threats, humans have never been better off, writes Scott Gilmore Scott Gilmore, December 31, 2014. Published in www.macleans.ca Tim Graham/Getty Images By almost every objective measure, 2014 was the safest, healthiest, happiest year in human history. But you probably refuse to believe that, don’t you? And that is…
Never mind the headlines. We’ve never lived in such peaceful times. By Steven Pinker and Andrew Mack. Published in www.state.com. An explosion rocks the Syrian city of Kobane during a reported suicide car bombing by the Islamic State, as seen from the Turkey-Syria border, on Oct. 20, 2014. The small picture is…
Interview by Marianne Schnall, published in Huffington Post I can remember being absolutely hooked and engrossed into the surreal world of the cutting-edge television series Twin Peaks back in the ’90s. That was when series creator and director David Lynch became a household name and the show developed a massive and…
The US initiative to gather nations in an attempt to crush ISIS is, in a sense, an understandable reaction to the brutality conveyed by the media. But like all other similar initiatives in the Middle East, the methods of bombing and other military approaches are doomed to failure. It will…
The second Summit of the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Community, known by its Spanish acronym CELAC, is focused on regional integration, the purpose behind its creation in 2011. And on its last morning, the heads of state or government signed a “zone of peace” accord, vowing to reject the…
[Source: Think Progress Website] BY ZACK BEAUCHAMP ON DECEMBER 11, 2013 AT 3:34 PM Between the brutal civil war in Syria, the government shutdown and all of the deadly dysfunction it represents, the NSA spying revelations, and massive inequality, it’d be easy to for you to enter 2014 thinking the…
The general perception amongst the general populace of what world peace means is mostly in the context of the absence of conflict, either within or between nations. Maharishi has said that an invincible nation will be characterized by ‘all good everywhere and non-good nowhere.’ This expands the concept of world peace fundamentally to…
[Comment by editor: a great article from Wall Street Journal a couple of years ago, still current within the context of the research done on it. A clear indication of collective consciousness changing, and the programs Maharishi has put in place to create lasting world peace.] BY JOSHUA S. GOLDSTEIN “The World Is a…
